The End of the Golden Gate: Writers on Loving and (Sometimes) Leaving San Francisco
By: Gary Kamiya
3.82
Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition
Capturing an ever-changing San Francisco, 25 acclaimed writers tell their stories of living in one …
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1. Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas
By: Rebecca Solnit , None , None
4.25
Format: 157 pages, Hardcover
What makes a place? Infinite City, Rebecca Solnit’s brilliant reinvention of the traditional atlas,… read more
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- travel
- nonfiction
- history
- essays
2. Salvation: Black People and Love
By: bell hooks
3.81
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Acclaimed visionary and intellectual bell hooks began her exploration of the meaning of love in Ame… read more
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- nonfiction
- essays
3. Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year
By: Anne Lamott
3.59
Format: 370 pages, Paperback
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- essays
4. The Expatriates
By: Janice Y.K. Lee
4.01
Format: 217 pages, Hardcover
Mercy, a young Korean American and recent Columbia graduate, is adrift, undone by a terrible incide… read more
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5. Tales of the City (Tales of the City, #1)
By: Armistead Maupin
4.00
Format: 371 pages, Paperback
San Francisco, 1976. A naïve young secretary, fresh out of Cleveland, tumbles headlong into a brave… read more
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- audiobook
"Small world, huh?"-Armistead Maupin, Tales of the City (Tales of the City, #1)
"We’re gonna be … I mean people like you and me … we’re gonna be fifty-year-old libertines in a world full of twenty-year-old Calvinists."-Armistead Maupin, Tales of the City (Tales of the City, #1)
"The thing that bugs me... is that you never really know what women are like... not for a long time, anyway. They only show you what they want you to see." Michael nodded. "So you fantasize over all t…"-Armistead Maupin, Tales of the City (Tales of the City, #1)
"Nobody's happy. What's happy? Happiness is over when the lights come on." The older woman poured herself a glass of sangria. "Screw that," she said quietly. "What?" "Screw that. Wash your mouth out. …"-Armistead Maupin, Tales of the City (Tales of the City, #1)
6. What Now?
By: Ann Patchett
4.67
Format: 107 pages, Hardcover
Based on her lauded commencement address at Sarah Lawrence College, this stirring essay by bestsell… read more
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7. Burn Book: A Tech Love Story
By: Kara Swisher
3.99
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From award-winning journalist Kara Swisher comes a witty, scathing, but fair accounting of the tech… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- memoir
- audiobook
8. The Best Strangers in the World: Stories from a Life Spent Listening
By: Ari Shapiro
4.05
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From the beloved host of NPR's All Things Considered, a stirring memoir-in-essays that is also a lo… read more
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- memoir
- travel
- nonfiction
- essays
- audiobook
"We'd drive west to the fog of the coast. In Oregon, nobody calls it the beach, maybe to discourage false hopes of warm and sun."-Ari Shapiro, The Best Strangers in the World: Stories from a Life Spent Listening
9. Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk
By: Kathleen Hanna
4.46
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
An electric, searing memoir by the original rebel girl and legendary front woman of Bikini Kill and… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
"She was the only woman on the whole record and hearing her gave me the first thought that someday I could be in a band."-Kathleen Hanna, Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk
10. Easy Beauty
By: Chloé Cooper Jones
4.12
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From Chloé Cooper Jones—Pulitzer Prize finalist, philosophy professor, Whiting Creative Nonfiction … read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- essays
- audiobook
"Beauty is what we're told is beautiful and what we're told becomes the truth."-Chloé Cooper Jones, Easy Beauty
"Maybe then I would submit to it's rigid ideals if I were recognized as worthy of experiencing them."-Chloé Cooper Jones, Easy Beauty
"I care if you are happy. I'm in love with your happiness. My focus is on how you feel not what you do."-Chloé Cooper Jones, Easy Beauty
"You could have made me come home," I say. "No, I can only try to be the person you want to come home to."-Chloé Cooper Jones, Easy Beauty
11. Afterparties
By: Anthony Veasna So
3.95
Format: 272 pages, ebook
Seamlessly transitioning between the absurd and the tenderhearted, balancing acerbic humor with sha… read more
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- short stories
- audiobook
"Fuck everyone else, I want to say, for burdening the two of us with all their baggage. Let's go back to minding our own business, anything but this. Who cares about our family? What have they ever do…"-Anthony Veasna So, Afterparties
"Seeing a sloppy wet penis enter a sloppy wet vagina, from above, going in and out with the practiced tempo of professionals, strikes me as yet another drama for the ages I am meant only to witness, r…"-Anthony Veasna So, Afterparties
"The dream unfolds: Somaly and I are sitting at a dinner table. She wears a white sampot covered in jewels perfectly matching her necklace. She’s almost akin to an apsara in a painting—aggressively el…"-Anthony Veasna So, Afterparties
"We drove through a few more neighborhoods after that, searching for the lost truck, listening to a CD of old Khmer songs, the same CD that had been stuck in the stereo since the Honda had belonged to…"-Anthony Veasna So, Afterparties
12. A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance
By: Hanif Abdurraqib
4.60
Format: 301 pages, Hardcover
A stirring meditation on Black performance in America from the New York Times bestselling author of… read more
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- history
- memoir
- nonfiction
- essays
- audiobook
"When someone loves loudly, with everything they have in them, the withholding of that loud love, even briefly, feels impossible to endure."-Hanif Abdurraqib, A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance
"If I am going to be afraid, I might as well do it honest. Arm in arm with everyone I love, adorned in blood and bruises, singing jokes on our way to the grave."-Hanif Abdurraqib, A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance
"I have wanted to die enough times in my life to understand the idea that wanting to die is not a foolish thing... I don't mean to prop up the idea of wanting an exit, but for me, not to imagine it as…"-Hanif Abdurraqib, A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance
"Of the many things America loves to pat itself on the back about, one of the things is an obsession with exploration, or the desire to seek places beyond the places you are from or the places you hav…"-Hanif Abdurraqib, A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance
13. National Dish: Around the World in Search of Food, History, and the Meaning of Home
By: Anya von Bremzen
3.55
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The acclaimed international food writer and award-winning author of Mastering the Art of Soviet Coo… read more
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- history
- memoir
- travel
- nonfiction
- essays
14. The Chinese Groove
By: Kathryn Ma
3.98
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Anne Tyler meets Jade Chang in this buoyant, good-hearted, and sharply written novel about a blithe… read more
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- audiobook
15. The Fetishist
By: Katherine Min
3.71
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In this hilariously savage, poignant novel by acclaimed author Katherine Min, a grieving daughter’s… read more
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- audiobook
16. I'm Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself: One Woman's Pursuit of Pleasure in Paris
By: Glynnis MacNicol
3.59
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
When you’re a woman smack in so-called “middle age” you are not promised anything at all other than… read more
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- travel
- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
17. Only Say Good Things: Surviving Playboy and Finding Myself
By: Crystal Hefner
3.73
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A raw and unflinching look at the objectification and misogyny of the Playboy mansion, a woman’s st… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
18. Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls
By: T Kira Madden
4.26
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Acclaimed literary essayist T Kira Madden's raw and redemptive debut memoir is about coming of age … read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- essays
- audiobook
"If there are real men, I haven't met them yet."-T Kira Madden, Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls
19. We Are Not Strangers: A Graphic Novel
By: Josh Tuininga
4.35
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Inspired by a true story, this graphic novel follows a Jewish immigrant’s efforts to help his Japan… read more
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20. Quietly Hostile: Essays
By: Samantha Irby
3.70
Format: 290 pages, Paperback
Samantha Irby invites us to share in the gory particulars of her real life, all that festers behind… read more
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- memoir
- short stories
- nonfiction
- essays
- audiobook
"[...] and my face is sore from smiling so hard in an effort to appear friendly and nonthreatening."-Samantha Irby, Quietly Hostile: Essays
"I'm so embarrassed by everything all the time, humiliated even by the need to breathe air where other people can see me"-Samantha Irby, Quietly Hostile: Essays
"I want to push back against this idea that it's not real love if you're not passionately chattering at each other all the time, that it's just as valid (and romantic!) to know instinctively when to s…"-Samantha Irby, Quietly Hostile: Essays
"I lived in blissful solitude for a long time...and you learn a lot about yourself and what you require for life when it's just you that you have to think about...You can buy frozen fish sticks and ea…"-Samantha Irby, Quietly Hostile: Essays
21. Why Fathers Cry at Night: A Memoir in Love Poems, Letters, Recipes, and Remembrances
By: Kwame Alexander
4.04
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
This powerful memoir from a #1 New York Times bestselling author and Newbery Medalist features poet… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- essays
- audiobook
"I want them to know that banning a book is like banning a hug and THAT is a dismal storm no should be left behind in"-Kwame Alexander, Why Fathers Cry at Night: A Memoir in Love Poems, Letters, Recipes, and Remembrances
22. The Last Ride of the Pony Express: My 2,000-mile Horseback Journey into the Old West
By: Will Grant
4.05
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
“Spellbinding…an unforgettable journey across the American West.” - Douglas Preston For readers … read more
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- travel
- nonfiction
- history
- memoir
23. The Telomere Effect: A Revolutionary Approach to Living Younger, Healthier, Longer
By: Elizabeth Blackburn
3.78
Format: 348 pages, Kindle Edition
The New York Times bestselling book coauthored by the Nobel Prize winner who discovered telomerase … read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
24. This Is Ear Hustle: Unflinching Stories of Everyday Prison Life
By: Nigel Poor
4.31
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From the co-creators and co-hosts of the Peabody- and Pulitzer-nominated podcast comes this unflinc… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
"If I could be any animal, I would be a wish dragon that would only appear when a kid needed it. Based on my experience with imaginary friends, they're needed. But dragons eat meat, and I couldn't do …"-Nigel Poor, This Is Ear Hustle: Unflinching Stories of Everyday Prison Life
25. The Lehman Trilogy
By: Stefano Massini
4.25
Format: 720 pages, Hardcover
Magnificent in scope, internationally lauded, and transcendent, the novel in verse that inspired t… read more
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- audiobook
26. Portal: San Francisco's Ferry Building and the Reinvention of American Cities
By: John King
4.19
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A two-time Pulitzer finalist explores the story of American urban design through San Francisco’s ic… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
27. Golden Gates: Fighting for Housing in America
By: Conor Dougherty
4.07
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A stunning, deeply reported investigation into the housing crisis Spacious and affordable homes… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
28. Fair Play: How Sports Shape the Gender Debates
By: Katie Barnes
4.35
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A richly reported and provocative look at the history of women’s sports and the controversy surroun… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
29. Unforgetting: A Memoir of Family, Migration, Gangs, and the Revolution in the Americas
By: Roberto Lovato
4.28
Format: 325 pages, Hardcover
A timely and no-holds-barred tale of gang life, guerilla warfare, immigration, and intergenerationa… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- memoir
- audiobook
"Forgetting begets forgetting begets ongoing mass murder."-Roberto Lovato, Unforgetting: A Memoir of Family, Migration, Gangs, and the Revolution in the Americas
30. The End of the Golden Gate: Writers on Loving and (Sometimes) Leaving San Francisco
By: Gary Kamiya
3.82
Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition
Capturing an ever-changing San Francisco, 25 acclaimed writers tell their stories of living in one … read more
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- history
- memoir
- travel
- short stories
- nonfiction
- essays
- audiobook
31. Bay Curious: Exploring the Hidden True Stories of the San Francisco Bay Area
By: Olivia Allen-Price
3.95
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Curious about the San Francisco Bay Area? With explorations into unique local legends, interesting … read more
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- travel
- nonfiction
- essays
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